She called security on me for toddler in car.... WTF??

Left my toddler in the car to pay for petrol - I could see him while paying - and a stupid woman called security cause my 3yo was crying and shouldn't be left in car...... Eh?? WTAF? She's never seen parents leave kids in the car to pay for petrol? WTF is that about?

You sound delightful, Dianne. I take it you'd have no problem leaving your three year old screaming in the car while you tootled off to the other side of the forecourt because kids cry? Do you think crying is character forming?

Surely it's good that she didn't ignore a crying child? Children don't normally cry without reason. If you only nipped innto pay for petrol how did she have time to call security? And how do you avtually do that? I wouldn't knwo the number... Did they turn up?

But if I saw a child crying on a oetrol forecourt I'd assume the parent was inside paying for petrol and would therefore be returning to the car within a couple of mins max. It's not as though the child was left in a car park or somewhere random. I always left mine in the car when I went inside to pay. To me it was the safer option.

I've never met anyone, or seen anyone, IRL who take their kids into the petrol station with them. Sitting in the car is safer than traipsing them across a forecourt for the two minutes paying for fuel takes.